Beware Outsider Syndrome
In the tarot deck I use, there is a card called: The Outsider. It’s an image of a child looking through a fence at a rainbow hued landscape just beyond his locked reach. When I read the cards of executives, clients, and colleagues, this card often appears, and it’s been weighing on me to writeRead More
Business as a Spiritual Path
We’re three months into our POP Mastermind with ten amazing women and one amazing man. What has been most notable has been the transformations in these brave people’s lives when they realize they can not only own their business destiny, but that they deserve to. My heart explodes in all sorts of love beams everyRead More
Claim Your Leadership Role
This week started out like any other. The Monday morning launch meeting for Enliven Books was fabulous. I presented Quantum Success, The Ghost Photographer, Living Light, and teased out Revolution Generation. All of these books I’m quite excited about, and the response to them was fabulous. I was flying “high” as I do when presentationsRead More
Sometimes Playing Small is the Biggest Thing You Can Do
Sometimes I dream up a new business, juicy idea, or audacious goal, and then I check the news and see the suffering in the world and lose my motivation to build, as all of my thoughts go straight to: Repair. Fix. Change. Can you relate? I just got off the phone with my author, JonRead More
The Mind-Body-Spirit of Success: What Are Your Non-Negotiables?
I was once engaged to a romantic, handsome, wealthy, poetry-writing man. It was the early days of the tea company, and I had little in the way of resources. I’d get a poem and a plane ticket on a Friday afternoon in my inbox. He’d take me to Hawaii on a whim. He’d secretly payRead More
How to Know When to End Things
Learning to be at home with yourself in the uncertain moments is the highest achievement you can accomplish in this lifetime. Endings are a thing, even a place, where you are guaranteed a workout in uncertainty. Some of us avoid endings, and some of us welcome them. The thrill seekers choose endings regularly, while mostRead More
Things I do for money, and other (diversified) love stories
Warning: I am going to use “I” a lot in this post. Not because I have a huge ego, but because I’m using my life as your laboratory this week. I’m sharing things I haven’t shared before, and so there’s a lot of the pronoun I. Here we go! I wake up early andRead More
Success is in the Details
When I feel like I’m not sure of my next move, I have a practice I call Love in Detail (which is also my next book). I will take notice of all the details around me, bring awareness to the love that is inherently found in my point of view, breath, and then takeRead More
Create Spaciousness as a Way to Success
A lot of people ask me how I get so much done, and I jokingly reply: Caffeine! But, there’s another trick to being productive I want to share with you now, one that I usually don’t talk a lot about: Daydreaming, and for extended periods of time. The secret to success is… Spacing OutRead More
Visionary Women April 29th
Be Inspired. Be Enlivened. Be You. Join Zhena some of the world’s most successful online and offline entrepreneurs, female CEO’s, and global coaches in this one-day, joy-filled, information-infused leadership gathering in the fun and funky Narrative Loft on April 29th in Santa Barbara. Guaranteed to be fun with inspiring, rockstar-level 20-minute talks, mingling sessions,Read More
